{"id":86235,"date":"2021-07-21T20:22:23","date_gmt":"2021-07-22T00:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/?p=86235"},"modified":"2021-07-21T20:25:04","modified_gmt":"2021-07-22T00:25:04","slug":"nick-gage-aew-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2021\/07\/21\/nick-gage-aew-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Gage Makes AEW Debut &#038; Will Face Chris Jericho Next Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nick Gage made his surprising AEW debut on night 2 of Fyter Fest.\u00a0 Gage recently made his<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2021\/03\/07\/nick-gage-makes-gcw-return-following-injury\/\" target=\"_self\"> return from injury<\/a> at\u00a0<strong>Game Changer Wrestling<\/strong>&#8216;s\u00a0<em>Take Kare\u00a0<\/em>event after roughly 8 months out with injury before winning the promotions top title at\u00a0<em>Spring Break<\/em> where he came face to face with\u00a0<strong>Jon Moxley<\/strong>.\u00a0 Gage was already a name on fans minds but his recent Dark Side Of The Ring special catapulted him to a new level of notoriety.\u00a0 Nick Gage was revealed to be <strong>Chris Jericho<\/strong>&#8216;s opponent in his second labor by <strong>MJF<\/strong>, the match will have no rules which plays into Gage&#8217;s strengths.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2020\/07\/07\/nick-gage-mdk-gcw\/\" target=\"_self\">Nick Gage<\/a> has been one of the top names on the independent wrestling scene for a few years now.\u00a0 He has formed a cult-like bond with his fanbase over a shared love of MDK &#8220;All F&#8217;n Day&#8221;.\u00a0 He has been key to the rise of Game Changer Wrestling as a major player on the indies in part due to that cult feeling to his matches, the fact he puts his body on the line in the ring doesn&#8217;t hurt either.<\/p>\n<p>What many may not know is that Gage is 40 years old and debuted all the way back in 1999.\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Combat Zone Wrestling\u00a0<\/strong>(CZW) was his home promotion for over a decade until 2010 when he was arrested.\u00a0 Since 2017 Gage, now clean of his crippling addictions, has worked as GCW&#8217;s biggest star and become one of the most recognizable faces on the US indie scene thanks to his charisma, insane matches, and very real promos that his fans lap up.<\/p>\n<p><em>Stay tuned to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/\" target=\"_self\">Last Word on Pro Wrestling<\/a>\u00a0for more on this and other stories from around the world of wrestling, as they develop. 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